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Rosemary Conley's questionable "Hip and Theigh Diet"
From Foodwatch: Fad diets - false promises and magic bullets Quote:
Hip and Thigh Diets - weight loss through kilojoule control and exercise It wasn't until one of Phil's comments at the end of Rosemary's segment last night that I realised who she was.
With the promise of spot reducing "problem areas", these diets are always popular and regularly re-surface every few years. The trouble is that weight is usually lost from all over your body, not just one spot. (And usually not the spot you want to lose it from.) Most are simply low-kilojoule diets combined with an exercise plan. Examples Rosemary Conley's Hip and Thigh Diet and the Cellulite Diet. |
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I hope she's not seeing DOI as an extended advertising opportunity.
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No she is there to demonstrate her skating prowess before she releases a new exercise video incorporating skating skills.
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If she was only after promoting her products - and the rumours are right that this is the third year running that she's attempted to get onto DOI - then I'd suggest that there are a lot of reality shows where she wouldn't have had to do half the work to gain a similar level of exposure. Why not just do IACGMOOH or Celebrity Big Brother, for example - with all the added opportunities to bang on about nutrition and cooking that both present?
Anyone stupid enough to believe that diet alone will magically sculpt your hips and thighs into ridiculous shapes deserves all they get IMO. That site's clearly written by someone almost as stupid as the people who try food fads in the first place. |
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If she was only after promoting her products - and the rumours are right that this is the third year running that she's attempted to get onto DOI - then I'd suggest that there are a lot of reality shows where she wouldn't have had to do half the work to gain a similar level of exposure. Why not just do IACGMOOH or Celebrity Big Brother, for example - with all the added opportunities to bang on about nutrition and cooking that both present?
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To be fair to Rosemary her diet isn't particularly faddy she has been promoting eating healthily alongside exercise for years now, I can remember watching her as a teenager so it must be well over 30 years. Her diet is based on eating a low fat, low GI diet and exercising regularly. I used to attend one of her exercise class franchises and it was a good fun work out.
She also has been taking skating lessons for a couple of years as she said in her VT,so I do believe she is excited about learning to skate rather than seeing this as a promotional opportunity. Or maybe I am just naive! |
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To be fair to Rosemary her diet isn't particularly faddy she has been promoting eating healthily alongside exercise for years now, I can remember watching her as a teenager so it must be well over 30 years. Her diet is based on eating a low fat, low GI diet and exercising regularly. I used to attend one of her exercise class franchises and it was a good fun work out.
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She also has been taking skating lessons for a couple of years as she said in her VT,so I do believe she is excited about learning to skate rather than seeing this as a promotional opportunity.
Why can't it be both?Her two years of skating lessons is pretty questionable too, btw. It gives her a very unfair advantage.
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Well it seems you just don't like Rosemary, and want to discredit her time on the show.
Rosemary's diet books are some of the least faddy out there. They recommend sensible eating, a balanced diet, and the calorie allowance is more generous than most. They don't rely on expensive, obscure ingredients and are very practical. Pretty much the opposide of faddish. None of her books have carried the "Hip and Thigh" tag for years, and even in those books, she didn't claim they were a spot diet. She just said that when she went on a low fat diet (for other health reasons), she lost a lot of weight from that area, and when she trialled it with members of her exercise class, they had similar findings. She also said that people would sometimes lose weight from other areas, normally if those were the "problem areas" to start with, and they generally became more in proportion. I'm not sure how valid those claims were, but they were given in context, and there was nothing wrong with the actual diets themselves. I've no idea if Rosemary will get herself back on tv more doing diet recommendations thanks to DOI. There are a lot worse out there. |
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Nothing 'faddy' about this diet at all and I'm on the Rosemaryconley.com website as a successful slimmer after losing 5 stone in total and have kept it off for over 3 years. It teaches low fat and low GI eating and it's actually helped me understand food and eat healthier. That article only really questions where the weight is lost from not it's diet principles so it's a load of tosh IMO. Faddy diets to me are the ones like cabbage soup etc as it's not helping dieters deal with their eating habits. I know I've got to continue with the way I eat if I want to remain healthy and keep my weight off.
I dont think she is there for promotional reasons, she genuinely wants to be on the show and is loving it. If her being there encourages people to join her classes then so be it, it's because she's on prime time tv. She's not shoving it in peoples faces whilst she's on there. |
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Promoting it has a "hip and thigh" diet makes it questionable even if it's not too bad in other respects.
Why can't it be both? Her two years of skating lessons is pretty questionable too, btw. It gives her a very unfair advantage. ![]() As for having an unfair advantage - given she is one of the weaker skaters left I'd hardly say that. As for diets i have heard there is a revolutionary diet which if you follow it is guaranteed to work - it's called the eat less, move more diet, sounds revolutionary.
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..She also has been taking skating lessons for a couple of years as she said in her VT,so I do believe she is excited about learning to skate rather than seeing this as a promotional opportunity. Or maybe I am just naive!
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Perhaps her diet and fitness franchise business is not doing too well since she has been out of the TV limelight?
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Well it seems you just don't like Rosemary, and want to discredit her time on the show.
I'd rather someone else had been given the chance to be in DOI. Quote:
Rosemary's diet books are some of the least faddy out there. They recommend sensible eating, a balanced diet, and the calorie allowance is more generous than most. They don't rely on expensive, obscure ingredients and are very practical. Pretty much the opposide of faddish. So she doesn't come right out and claim it's a spot diet, but she nonetheless gives the impression that spot reduction is what will normally happen. That's just being misleading in a more subtle way.None of her books have carried the "Hip and Thigh" tag for years, and even in those books, she didn't claim they were a spot diet. She just said that when she went on a low fat diet (for other health reasons), she lost a lot of weight from that area, and when she trialled it with members of her exercise class, they had similar findings. She also said that people would sometimes lose weight from other areas, normally if those were the "problem areas" to start with, and they generally became more in proportion. I'm not sure how valid those claims were, but they were given in context, and there was nothing wrong with the actual diets themselves. ... Quote:
Let's be honest nobody goes on the programme solely because they desparately want to learn to skate. Some do really throw themselves into it and continue with it after the show has finished but they all want to raise their profile in some way.
As for having an unfair advantage - given she is one of the weaker skaters left I'd hardly say that. As for diets i have heard there is a revolutionary diet which if you follow it is guaranteed to work - it's called the eat less, move more diet, sounds revolutionary. ![]() Re the diet -- it's not one of the worse, but it's promoted in a misleading way (the name alone shows that) and it means she's exploiting people's anxieties about their bodies when less misleading advice can be had for free. |
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I loved Jane Torvill's remark "Could take a while" when Rosemary was asked to skate round the rink after the revelation of 2 yrs skating lessons.
Hope the public vote with the same common sense as sending Laila home and Rosemary-love-myself-I-do goes next. |
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So she doesn't come right out and claim it's a spot diet, but she nonetheless gives the impression that spot reduction is what will normally happen. That's just being misleading in a more subtle way.
More to the point, and as you've already been told, she hasn't had a book that includes the term "hip and thigh" for years. Time to move on. Quote:
without the extra training, she probably wouldn't be in the show at all. She'd tried before and hadn't gotten in.
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Re the diet -- it's not one of the worse, ... she's exploiting people's anxieties about their bodies when less misleading advice can be had for free.
She sells books that contain recipes that are low fat and low GI and gives advice on how to cut calories when you cook, and medically endorsed advice on what sort of calorie allowance is safe and successful. Why is that wrong? I'm not aware of Rosemary single-handedly making people anxious about their weight. People who do her job actually help people who are already anxious about their weight. The only reason she might make people feel a bit bad now is if they are already insecure about the fact they are the same age as her and she's much fitter and healthier than them, and doing things they can only dream of. |
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Who'd have known an ageing aerobics instructor would have caused such a furore. Brilliant!
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I tried the Hip and Thigh Diet years ago and the combination of low fat food and targetted exercise did help me lose weight from those areas. Usually when I lose weight it goes from my waist first which is not where I want to lose it from. So it worked for me at least
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